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    The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset...
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  • July 2024, two suitcases containing human remains were found on Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, in the South West of England. The suitcases were found...
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    A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type...
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  • the nearby Taft Bridge. A similar result was seen when barriers were erected on the popular suicide bridge: the Clifton Suspension Bridge, in the United...
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    barrier went up compared to the four years before. A study on the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England, found a decrease in jumping suicides on site...
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  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel, including: The Clifton Suspension Bridge across the Avon Gorge in Bristol The Royal Albert Bridge across the River Tamar from Devon...
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  • Clifton Bridge may refer to: Clifton Bridge (Nottingham), United Kingdom Clifton Bridge (York), United Kingdom Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, United...
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    the suburb lies within the ward of Clifton Down. Clifton is home to Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge; many buildings of the University...
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  • Clifton Suspension Bridge, a fall of almost 75 metres (246 ft). On Friday, 8 May 1885, Thomas Stevens, resident inspector for the Clifton Suspension Bridge...
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    Isambard Kingdom Brunel (category British bridge engineers)
    which time he began a design for a bridge in Bristol, which would later be completed as the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The event stopped work on the tunnel...
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    Clifton Observatory (grid reference ST564733) is a former mill, now used as an observatory, located on Clifton Down, close to the Clifton Suspension Bridge...
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  • Woods. Along the way it crosses 45 bridges including Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol Bridge, and Avonmouth Bridge. The walk featured in various charity...
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    oceangoing steamships (SS Great Britain and SS Great Western), and the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The new railway replaced the Kennet and Avon Canal, which had...
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    which opened in 1864. The chains from the old bridge were re-used in Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge. The original brick pile buttresses of Brunel's...
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    hill forts overlooking the gorge, as well as an observatory. The Clifton Suspension Bridge, an icon of Bristol, crosses the gorge. 51°27′18″N 2°37′40″W...
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    fortune by leaping off that bridge, the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, and Bristol's 250 foot Clifton Suspension Bridge. Slightly injured on a couple...
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  • together and lay down on the Clifton Suspension Bridge, blocking traffic and causing the police to seal off the bridge to all vehicles, cyclists and...
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    limestone cliffs. The upper station is close to Brunel's famous Clifton Suspension Bridge and is located adjacent to the former Grand Spa Hotel (now the...
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  • after two suitcases containing human remains are found at the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol. 12 July Four migrants die and 63 are rescued after...
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  • series. The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol was used as the setting for a scene, which was filmed in October 2019 while the bridge was closed, supposedly...
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    The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 which carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, connecting Point Pleasant, West...
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    Hawkshaw, he completed Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge. Following the Tay Bridge disaster he sat on the commission which investigated...
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    modern low-redundancy chain link suspension spans fell into general disfavor as a result of the collapse of the Silver Bridge in 1967, which led to the deaths...
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    river passes through the deep Avon Gorge, spanned by Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge: the river is tidal and is navigable by seagoing vessels at high...
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    climbing and zip-lining from the bridge. It was featured alongside Kyiv's Glass Bridge and Clifton Suspension Bridge. In February 2014, the government...
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    There he heard about the competition to build what became the Clifton Suspension Bridge. In December 1834 Marc Brunel succeeded in raising enough money...
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  • part in the development of Bristol, including the building of Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway. It also influenced the development...
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    longest suspension bridges are listed according to the length of their main span (i.e., the length of suspended roadway between the bridge's towers)....
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    The Niagara Clifton Bridge, also known as the first Falls View Suspension Bridge, was a suspension bridge over the Niagara River between Niagara Falls...
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    persons falling from the Clifton Suspension Bridge where the height differential of approximately 70 metres from the bridge to the bottom of the Avon...
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